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College Station, Texas Limestone walls with brick accents and a metal roof reflect the style of the Texas hill country in this home for a family with young children. The rural site is poised between a steeply sloping hillside and a river bottom. Predominantly single-story, the overall structure is broken into three major masses containing interior zones linked by lighter, galvanized-steel-clad elements. Vehicle access is placed on the least site-intrusive end of the house while the bedrooms are on the most private end, with the main living areas central. The tower-like front element draws attention to the entry as well as acting as a human-scale repetition of the larger central living mass. Site topography dictated an east-west alignment; more solid toward the public front and more transparent on the private rear exposure. Substantial landscape treatments integrate the house to the site, mitigate the topographic changes, and mask minor highway noise with water features. |
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